Size 



210 FAMILY OTARIIDJE. 



Neophoca lobata, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., xviii, 1866, 231; 



Suppl. Cat. Seals and Whales, 1871, 28; Hand-List Seals, 1874, 



43, pi. xxx. 

 Otaria australis, QUOY & GAIMARD, Zool. Voy. Astrolabe, i, 1830, 95 ; 1833, 



pi. xiv (animal), xv, figg. 3,4 (skull), "Nouvelle Hollande." 

 Arctocephalus australis, GRAY, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, 57 (not Phoca 



australis of Zimmermann and Kerr). 



Otaria stelleri, TEMMINCK, Faur.a Japon. (a,t least in part). 

 Phocarctos elongatus, GRAY, Hand-List of Seals, 1874, 30, pll. xxi, xxii. 

 Eumetopias cinerea, PETERS (ex Pe"ron), Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1877, 506. 



HABITAT. Australian,Seas. Japan ? ? 

 B. Pelage soft, with abundant under-fur. Ears longer. Molars 5335 



smaller. Color gray ; black when young OULIPHOCAOE. 



V. Genus CALLORHINUS, Gray. 



Callorhinus, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 357. 



Arctocephalus, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7, 11 (not of F. Cuvier). 



6 - 6 12 



CHAR. GEN. Facial portion of the skull short, convex. Molars ^3^ = JQ* 

 6. Callorhinus ursinus Gray.* 



HABITAT. Shores of the North Pacific, from California and Japan (Peters) 

 northward. 



VI. Genus ARCTOCEPHALUS, F. Cuvier. 



lArctocepJialus] Arctocephales, F. CUVIER, M6m. du Mus., xi, 1824, 205', pi. 

 iv, fig. 1. 



Arctocephalus, F. CUVIER, Diet, des Sci. Nat., xxxix, 1827, 554. 



Halarctus, GILL, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 7, 11. 



Arctophoca, PETERS, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1866, 276. GRAY, Suppl. Cat. 

 Seals and Whales, 1871, 31. 



Euotaria } GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., iv, 1869, 269; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 34. 



Gypsophoca, GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., iv, 1869,269; Hand- 

 List Seals, 1874, 27. 

 CHAR. GEN. Facial portion of skull slender, elongated, pointed, gently 



declined. Molars ^nj = , much larger than in Callorhinus. 



7. Arctocephalus australis (Zimmermann) Allen. 



Phoca ursina, in part, of various early writers. 



Phoca australis, ZIMMERMANN, Geograph. Geschichte, iii, 1782, 276 (= "Falk- 

 land Seal, Pennant, ii, 521 ). KERR, Anim. King., 1792, 127 

 (= "Falkland Seal, Penn., Hist. Quad. N., 378"). 



Phoca falklandica, SHAW, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 256 (='<Falkland Isle Seal" of 

 Pennant the Fur Seal of the Falkland Islands). 



Otaria falklandica, DESMAREST, Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 601, and of 

 many subsequent writers. 



Otaria s. Arctocephalus falUandicus, GRAY, PETERS, and others. 



'For synonymy see infra, under the general history of the specie. 



